Caity-Shea Violette

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About Caity-Shea Violette

Caity-Shea Violette is a national award-winning, internationally-produced playwright and screenwriter based in Los Angeles. Her work explores the intersections of healthcare, sexuality, capitalism, and intergenerational healing through a darkly comedic, interpersonal lens. Her plays include RX MACHINA (ACTF Harold & Mimi Steinberg Award, Clauder Competition Gold Prize, Judith Royer Award Finalist), REAP THE GROVE (Jean Kennedy Smith Award, ScreenCraft’s Stage Writing Award Runner-Up), SLOW JAM (Samuel French Off Off Broadway Festival Winner, Gary Garrison National Ten-Minute Play Award), CREDIBLE (Blue Ink Award Semifinalist, O’Neill NPC Semifinalist), TARGET BEHAVIOR (National Partners of American Theatre Award), and others. Her work has been developed or presented by Roundabout Theatre Company, The Kennedy Center, Portland Stage Company, Great Plains Theatre Commons, Climate Change Theatre Action, The New Harmony Project, Boston Playwrights’ Theatre, and more. She has also been a finalist for Risk Theatre’s Modern Tragedy Award and a semifinalist for the Future of Playwriting Prize and Bay Area Playwrights Festival. Caity-Shea’s plays are published by Concord Theatricals and Applause books. MFA in Playwriting: Boston University. More at